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Beauty is an okay thing
— and this is a beautiful interview with the artist Nancy Gruskin
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“If I don’t have red, I use blue.”
Big painting in progress. It might look like travesty or parody, like a joke on behalf of the grand tradition of still life, but I can assure you: it’s not!
This is simply where my art wants to go when it’s free to choose its own way …
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A good week for mornings ...
Here is a link if you want to follow it day by day
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Back to Tal R
still very fascinated & amused by the work and thoughts of Tal R
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A year of documenting mornings -
Turning the year’s half-way point, I decided (against better judgement) to start a new project. My tutor tells me it’s unrealizable, too rigid, impossible to carry through. For better or worse I take his words as a challenge …
this is what I do:
Every morning I start my day of making with a simple still life.
Th is what I doEvery morning I start my day making a simple still life.
These are…
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#art#art as ritual#contemporary art#daily drawing#mixed media#monotype#sketches#Still life#Stilleben
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Tal R, again
It never struck me before, but of course there are strong art brut affinities in the art of Tal R.
“I think entering my work feels a bit like entering a Luna Park. There’s the roller-coaster, there are shooting galleries, and of course the candy floss van. There are all these different tents with different things. At first glance, it might look like I make very different types of works. But…
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Aspirations
… well, not necessarily to be ironing someones shirt…, but to one day be able to make a drawing as simple and perfect as this –
Jean Dubuffet Woman Ironing a Shirt, I(December 1951)
Jean Dubuffet was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, best known for his development of the term art brut.
This is what MoMA says about him:
Jean Dubuffet’s work is marked by a rebellious attitude toward…
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«BLACK PAPER - Writing in a Dark Time» by TEJU COLE
I feel the sadness of the city, a sadness all the more powerful because everything around suggests that there is nothing to be sad about.
«BLACK PAPER – Writing in a Dark Time» by TEJU COLE
A new, beautifully disturbing essay collection by Teju Cole. If I am to highlight some of them …
1) “After Caravaggio”, a work of art in its own right.
2) “Gossamer World: On Santu Mofokeng”, a beautiful…
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The beautiful ugliness of Phyllida Barlow
For almost 60 years, British artist Phyllida Barlow (1944-2023) took inspiration from her surroundings to create imposing installations that can be at once menacing and playful. She created large-scale yet anti-monumental sculptures from inexpensive, low-grade materials such as cardboard, fabric, plywood, polystyrene, scrim, plaster and cement. These constructions were often painted in industrial…
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Try, try again …
TASK:
Make a quick drawing every morning for a month – using the same, simple setup (a kettle, a cup & a vase with a dry flower) as motif.
Continuous line, non dominant hand, 2 minutes
ArtGraf water soluble tailor graphite
Painting with “dirty” water, adding a few lines, 3 minutes
Learning something? I’m not sure yet – but maybe … if I just keep going???
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The Pensive Image (cont.)
Hanneke Grootenboer’s text is dense and rich, very dense. I dance my way across, picking up notes here & there. Grootenboer quotes Hesse, saying:
“Chaos can be structured as non-chaos.”
— Eva Hesse
It’s a beautiful line, almost like a kōan.
Hesse also said: “Don’t ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does” which to me is very much in line with the point Grootenboer is making in…
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What I read today
I have tried to stay away from aesthetic theory for a while – focusing instead on the emotional side of art making. But then this book by Hanneke Grootenboer called: Pensive Image. Art as a Form of Thinking caught my eye.
This is how Grootenboer describes ‘the PENSIVE image’
I would define pensive images as those that confront us in such a way that our wondering about the work of art—its…
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WHAT GOD KNEW
Marianne Boruch
when he knew nothing. A leaflooks like this, doesn’t it? No oneto ask. So came the inventionof the question too, the way all at heart are rhetorical, each leafsuddenly wedded to its shade. When God
knew nothing, it was better, wasn’t it? Not the color blue yet, its deep unto black. No color at all really, not yet one thing leading to another, sperm to egg endlessly, thus…
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#Fallen From#grace#Marianne Boruch#poetry#Vilhelm Hammershøi#Vilhelm Hammershøi Danish painter#WHAT GOD KNEW
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Joan Jonas - Drawings
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Joan Jonas “Dog Drawing” from a performance with Robert Ashley at La MaMa, New York, 2009 Oil stick on paper 60 × 40.6 cm
Joan Jonas was born in New York in 1936. She received a BA from Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1958, and an MFA in sculpture from Columbia University, New York, in 1965. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with recent solo…
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